Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel (Sexual Cultures)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004H0O1KY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 277 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. 1280, and Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels.Forter examines the narrative str
It pays closer, more intelligent, and more sustained attention to the crime novels it considers than has been paid them before, and it not only engages an impressive range of psychoanalytic thinkers, but contributes significantly to the development and refinement of psychoanalytic theory."-Tim Dean,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Sumptuous, elegant, nuanced, and accessible, Greg Forter's Murdering Masculinities helps us to remember what language can do. He offers a transformative reading of American crime fiction, arguing that it is not to high modernism that we should look for
"Very smart and eloquently written" according to Vera. Sophisticated close readings of American crime fiction. Very smart and eloquently written.. "lost interest" according to Aussie Wil. did not get into it at all but you occassionally get reads like that, so would not offer it to any one else to read
Greg Forter teaches American Literature at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.